The government has engaged in a "cover-up" over claims the IRA has kept some weapons, the DUP has alleged.
Party leader Ian Paisley made the claims after meeting the head of the decommissioning body General John de Chastelain on Wednesday.

He called on the security forces to provide more information on claims that some IRA members kept arms.

Mr Paisley demanded the publication of what the IRA decommissioned and estimates of what remains.

"They should tell the people what they know," he said.

"They should tell the people what they know so that the people can be forearmed to meet what is going to happen; because those arms are going to be used against the Protestant population of Northern Ireland."

The meeting followed fresh concerns about the extent of IRA decommissioning after simultaneous reports last month by the Independent Monitoring Commission and arms body.

Both cited intelligence reports from unspecified NI security sources that some IRA members had retained arms.

Also on Wednesday Sinn Fein chief negotiator Martin McGuinness said the DUP "search for excuses" to not share power had to end.

"This meeting has little to do with IRA weapons," he said.

"The IRA have dealt decisively with that issue and the DUP know this. What this meeting is about is part of the DUP search for excuses not to engage."